Necro: Blood Magic and curses

[Chaos Reins]

I was thinking of making a strait necro - a blood magic and curses. Any one have one or have any ideas about it?
Chaos

[AAATed]

You can deal out tons of damage this way if you're planning on being offensive, but you're going to have to watch out for mesmers. With blood magic and good armor, you're going to be able to stay alive for a while even if you're being beat upon by warriors thanks to your ability to feed off of opponents' healths. You could also go a little less offense and focus more on curses, bringing along energy depleting spells like malaise and lingering curse.

[SillySil]

I was just wandering. If I cast a spell with sacrifice while I'm low on health. What does happen? Do I die? Does the spell effect happen?
It seems there have been a few changes to the answer to this because I get different information about this.

[Jonuss Madrick]

Awaken the blood is perfect for this. +2 blood magic, +2 curses

[TheQuickness]

Your life goes to 1...you cant kills urself sacrificing, however with 1 life anything else WILL.

and Lingering curse doesnt deplete energy, removes enchantments and makes healing less effective...but doesnt deplete energy directly.

But yea...look into curses skill...they are VERY useful, however almost all rely on your team knowing what the curse does and who its on and so on...so a curse necro doesnt usually do well in a pick up PvP party.

Look into the skills and form your own ideas though. Ive have used TONS of different pure necro builds and have even gone all into one type of magic and put other attribs into soul reaping for near unlimited PvE energy, trust me theres so many viable builds that asking for one here will mostly be semi-ignored.

[Hokutan]

I was thinking of making a strait necro - a blood magic and curses. Any one have one or have any ideas about it?
Chaos

with Necro's primary only skill being Soul Reaping,wich gives you energy back when something dies ,if i was gonna be pure necro i would probably go mostly into Death,for the PVE part of the game anyway.(Minions are like walking bombs,that give energy back when they die to a well played necro.)

i would use Death,Blood,and Curse,and soul reaping.

Death also has a really strong heal ,that consumes a corpse to give ya a lot of health back at once.That with the blood magics direct damage life stealing spells and the Curses Dots and Hex's would make a real fomidable opponent.
Good luck!